Speaking of expired film...
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You will still get images, just don't expect great quality..
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I would be more optimistic than Paddysnapper. Try exposing at 32 and develop as you would normally. But, if you think your shots might be award-winners, you might want to double up with a second camera.
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Yeah, I don't really agree with @Paddysnapper here and think there's a large probability that your images with this film will be perfectly fine, provided it wasn't stored directly in the sun or similar. I'd just follow the advice of @Kevin Allan and give the film a bit of extra exposure.
That said, I might not shoot anything terribly important with the film, just in case.
That said, I might not shoot anything terribly important with the film, just in case.
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I'm not at all sure I understand how the advice for C41 film relates to black and white film behaviour, but I think I remember comments that suggest it is similar. So I would apply the one stop per decade guideline, which would suggest expose it at 40 or 32. But there's also the "over-expose is better" rule, which suggests another half to one stop even for many fresh films. That would easily get you to 25 (if the guideline is appropriate). And then there's also "expose for the shadows", which tends to mean over-exposing even more, as read by a centre-weighted light meter.
Now, YMMV of course. I've been exposing 400 ISO fresh TriX at 320, 250 and even 200, results needing a bit of contrast boost, and then ran a roll at 400 and thought it looked really nice. The next roll at 400, Vuescan started throwing up lots of "too dark black" pixel colours (in the positive), although I did managed to get some shadow detail eventually. So I'm all confused!
Now, YMMV of course. I've been exposing 400 ISO fresh TriX at 320, 250 and even 200, results needing a bit of contrast boost, and then ran a roll at 400 and thought it looked really nice. The next roll at 400, Vuescan started throwing up lots of "too dark black" pixel colours (in the positive), although I did managed to get some shadow detail eventually. So I'm all confused!
